Vanessa Goikoetxea
Nabucco / Abigaille
Vanessa Giokoetxea is an internationally acclaimed soprano whose recent successes include her debut as Tosca at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under Daniele Gatti, Rusalka at Opéra de Nice and Opera de Tenerife, and participation in The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. She performed Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder in Bologna under Riccardo Frizza.
biography
Vanessa Goikoetxea | Soprano
Her repertoire includes major roles such as Donna Anna at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Seattle Opera, and Semperoper Dresden; Alcina and Tosca at Seattle Opera; Vitellia at the Gran Teatre del Liceu; and Fiordiligi at Teatro de la Maestranza and Semperoper Dresden. She has also sung Micaëla, Musetta, and Hanna Glawari, and appeared in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang. A frequent guest at Semperoper Dresden, her recordings include La donna serpente and Tosca (DVD). Upcoming engagements include Lady Macbeth at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Madame Lidoine at Teatro La Fenice.
She has also debuted Ascensión in La del Manojo de Rosas by Sorozábal and Tosca at Seattle Opera.
Critically acclaimed for her debut as Sifare in Mozart’s Mitridate, Re di Ponto at Boston Lyric Opera, a role she reprised with great success at the Teatro Real in Madrid under the baton of Ivor Bolton.
She debuted the role of Donna Elvira, stood out as the soloist in Poulenc’s Gloria under Erik Nielsen, and performed Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder conducted by Maestro Giancarlo Guerrero.
She opened the season at Teatro Massimo di Palermo in the title role of Gisela!, sang Marzelline at Teatro Campoamor, where she also performed Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni.
Other roles include Alice Ford (Falstaff) in Japan, Armilla (La donna serpente) at the Festival della Valle d’Itria, Hanna Glawari and Jenny Hill in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill at Korea National Opera in Seoul.